Carvalho Leite

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Carvalho Leite 1930

Carlos Antônio Dobbert de Carvalho Leite (born June 25, 1912 in Niterói ( RJ ), † July 19, 2004 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian football player . With Botafogo FC he won five national championships in Rio de Janeiro in the 1930s . With Brazil he took part in the soccer world championships of 1930 and 1934 and the South American championship in 1937 .

Act

Carvalho Leite originally played for Petropolitano FC . He also played in the national selection of the state of Rio de Janeiro (at that time not to be confused with the selection of the federal capital Rio de Janeiro, the federal district ). In 1929 he was brought to Botafogo FC in the capital, where he stayed until the end of his career in 1942. After a suspension due to a change of association, he was also eligible to play in official Botafogos games from 1930 and won the championship of the federal district with the club that year , the third in the club's history and the first in 18 years.

On July 22, 1930, he made his national team debut in Brazil's second group game against Bolivia at the World Cup in Uruguay at the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo . Brazil won 4-0 but were eliminated due to a 2-0 defeat in their first game against Yugoslavia . On August 10th of the year he came in Rio in a friendly international match against Yugoslavia, practically a kind of revenge game, for his second appearance for Brazil and also scored his first two goals for the Seleção , which won 4-1 this time. The Yugoslav association did not have this game as an official international match.

World Championship 1930 : Back: Brilhante , Fernando Giudicelli , Hermógenes, Nilo , Carvalho Leite, Itália , Fausto dos Santos , Santana; Front: Teóphilo, Benevenuto, Benedito, Velloso, Doca, Russinho , Preguinho .

In April and May 1931 there were two games against the champions of São Paulo SC Corinthians Paulista for the Taça dos Campeões Estaduais , the cup of national champions ; a kind of Brazilian championship . After losing their first game 2-0 away, Botafogo secured the trophy in the second leg with a 7-1 win, to which Nilo Murtinho Braga contributed four and Carvalho Leite two goals. Such competitions were not held in subsequent years.

In mid-1931 he was released alongside Nilo, one of the big stars of that era, and two other players from Botafogo as a reinforcement for a European trip by local competitor CR Vasco da Gama . Only the second trip to Europe by a Brazilian association - after that of CA Paulistano in 1925 - took him through Spain and Portugal. In twelve games, including against FC Barcelona , FC Porto and SL Benfica and Sporting Lisbon , the Vasco team, coached by Harry Welfare , won eight times.

That year it wasn't enough to defend the championship title, but he made a big impression in a selection game between the federal district against São Paulo: the Prince of Wales, who was present in the stadium, went into the dressing room after the game and congratulated him on his performance. In 1935, 1938 and 1939 he played other games for the national team. During these years he won the Brazilian State Championship four times with the federal district .

In 1932, 1933, 1934 and 1935, the powerful striker won four national championships in a row with Botafogo, which has remained unique to date and describes the club's most successful era. The last three championships took place in the league of the Federação Metropolitana de Desportos , which is bound by the amateur statute, after a schism in Rio football between professionalism and amateurism . Nilo was the only player besides him who was involved in all five titles of the time. Nilo also acted as one of the two assistant coaches of the Hungarian Nicolas Ladanyi , who incorporated elements of psychoanalysis into his training program and was with Botafogo from 1930 to 1933. Carvalho Leite himself was top scorer of the league three times: in 1936 he scored 15 goals; In 1938 he had to share the title of best shooter with Leônidas da Silva from the professionals of the CR Flamengo , who like him scored 16 goals, and in 1939 he was the sole top scorer of the championship, now reunited under professionalism, with 22 goals. In six more years he was Botafogo's best league goal scorer. At Botafogo he is the second most successful goalscorer (as of July 2020).

At the 1934 World Cup in France, where Brazil were eliminated in the first round against Spain, Carvalho Leite was part of the squad, but was not used. During the subsequent trip to Europe in Brazil, he played on June 3, 1934 in Belgrade, where the Seleção lost 4-8 to host Yugoslavia. Both associations have this game officially in their annals. On this trip and other games in South America until February 1939, Brazil played against numerous other national and club teams in which he was used. However, these games had no official character.

In March and April 1936 another trip abroad was the highlight. With Botafogo he toured Mexico on the club's first tour, where Asturias FC , Real Club España and Necaxa were opponents, and the USA, where two games against the Shamrocks were played in St. Louis . In nine games, Botafogo won six times and lost only two times.

In January 1937 he finished second with Brazil at the South American Championship held in Buenos Aires . In the play-off against the hosts, which took place in front of 80,000 spectators in the Gasómetro de Boedo and was accompanied by riots, Brazil lost 2-0 after extra time. Carvalho Leite came on as a substitute in this game. He scored three goals in four appearances in this tournament. His last two internationals on March 5th and March 17th in Buenos Aires against Argentina, this time for the Copa Roca , were disasters from a Brazilian point of view: Brazil lost here with 1: 6 and 1: 5. He played a total of ten internationals and scored seven times.

In May 1941 he was injured in a 5-1 victory Botafogos in a championship game against Bonsucesso FC , to which he also contributed a goal. He then played only one game: on January 15, 1942, he ended his playing career at the age of 29 with a 3-1 victory in a friendly game in Salvador at EC Bahia . He is said to have scored 275 goals for Botafogo in 325 games, which puts him in second place in the club's history behind Waldir Cardoso Lebrêgo "Quarentinha" with 310 goals in 444 games attributed to him.

After he was already in charge of training at Botafogo from 1941 to 1942, he was also on the bank at Botafogo from 1942–1943, 1950–1951 and 1951–1952. In addition, the trained doctor, who was also known for his success with women, acted as Botafogo's medical advisor for over 50 years.

statistics

Teams

National team

  • 1930–1940: National football team of Brazil (11 games / six goals) The following appearances in the national team are proven.

Official internationals

  • July 22, 1930 against Bolivia, result: 4: 0 (Football World Cup)
  • August 10, 1930 against Yugoslavia, result: 4: 1 (2 goals)
  • August 17, 1930 against USA, result: 4: 3 (1 goal / total 3 goals)
  • 6 September 1931 against Uruguay, result: 2-0 (Copa Rio Branco)
  • June 3, 1934 against Yugoslavia, result: 4: 8
  • January 3, 1937 against Chile, result: 6: 4 (Campeonato Sudamericana) (1 goal / 4 total)
  • January 13, 1937 against Paraguay, result: 5: 0 (Campeonato Sudamericana) (1 goal / total 5)
  • January 19, 1937 against Uruguay, result: 3: 2 (Campeonato Sudamericana) (1 goal / 6 total)
  • February 1, 1937 against Argentina, result: 0: 2 (Campeonato Sudamericana)
  • March 5, 1940 against Argentina, result: 1: 6 (Copa Roca)
  • March 17, 1940 against Argentina, result: 1: 5 (Copa Roca)

Unofficial games

Other selection teams

  • c. 01928: State selection from Rio de Janeiro (Seleção Fluminense)
  • 1931–1939: State selection of Rio de Janeiro (Seleção Carioca / Federal District)

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jorge Costa: Excursão do Vasco da Gama a Europa em 1931 ( Memento from July 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) , Arquivo de Súmulas, October 24, 2010
  2. ↑ Sérgio Augusto: Botafogo: entre o céu eo inferno , Ediouro Publicações, 2004
  3. ↑ Pedro Varanda: Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas - Jogos Internacionais , RSSSF Brasil , December 1, 2011.
  4. ↑ Fernando Matta: Arquivo da Seleção Brasileira Principa , RSSSF Brasil , February 9, 2011
  5. ↑ Note: There are sources with different information on games and goals, but they do not differ significantly.
  6. ↑ Individual proof for international matches
personal data
SURNAME Leite, Carvalho
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Niterói ( RJ )
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 2004
Place of death Rio de Janeiro